Pippa Hackett

Scottish seed potato producer evokes Famine in letter to Minister for Agriculture

Cabinet approval to be sought for €66m decommissioning scheme to shrink the size of the whitefish fleet

Government forced to defend requirements for live music and late-night hospitality over weekend

Package includes a 50% increase in ‘co-financing’ by Government over the period

The rapid shutdown of the peat industry has brought a new focus on clean energy, though some workers are concerned about how the ‘just transition’ is managed

Micheál gets ratty in slugfest over housing, CO2 monitors and Belarus comparisons

‘Common sense’ urged in Border areas as cross-Border travel driving up Covid-19 rates

Understood Cabinet will be told borrowing increased from zero to €28m last year

Pippa Hackett says such a scheme should be considered after KBC and Ulster Bank moves

State strategy does not set target to reduce sector’s main source of carbon emissions - livestock

Tackling licence backlog for tree-felling and planting one of the key aims of Government’s strategy for forestry

All-Ireland plan focuses on protecting rare, at-risk species, like the Great Yellow Bumblebee

Green Party deputy leader says motion ‘distracts’ from launch of Climate Action Bill

Awards celebrate timber in design and aim to acknowledge excellence in wood usage and innovation

Pauline O’Reilly complains ‘all the questions were about the strange reality of someone running as an Independent’

Row over Hazel Chu’s bid for Seanad seat highlights split between party’s leading figures

Motion of no confidence is tabled in Hazel Chu after she announced she would run in election as an Independent

For Coillte, the biggest crisis of recent years has not been Covid, says chief executive

Forest Industries Ireland urges third-party review to speed up approval of licences

Seanad told that due to absence of peat from Irish sources, industry will have to import it

Streamlining moves to clear licensing backlog will focus on organisational structure

Draft strategy ‘woefully inadequate’ to meet challenges, Environmental Pillar says

Industry groups call on Minister of State for Agriculture to tackle licensing delays

Initiative to be carried out in partnership with the Department of Agriculture

‘Ireland’s agricultural system, which relies on producing the most carbon-intensive foods, is highly unsustainable’

Coillte project will transform 900 hectares of commercial plantations for people and nature

Varadkar defends move while Sinn Féin whip says increased allowance will be returned

Department of Agriculture has granted 570 new permits , with thousands more in system

Green ministers insist Government is responding to climate and biodiversity crises

HSE figures show seven patients contracting disease in Irish hospitals a day on average

Róisín Garvey becomes emotional during debate on how to tackle threat to ecosystems

Climate activists claim misguided policy ensuring ‘wrong trees in the wrong places’

Pandemic saw fobbing-in facility for recording attendance of Senators and TDs halted

Neasa Hourigan seeks fuller detail on where €218m allocated for homeless services will go

Taoiseach says no forestry industry left within months unless licence appeals dealt with

Minister says work beginning to ‘review and refresh’ national transport strategy

Coillte warned that the backlog could lead to timber shortages and thousands of job losses

Ministers taking 10% reduction still paid more than previous government

Taoiseach Micheál Martin says ‘there’s either a rate for job or not’ as super junior minister

New Cabinet younger on average than outgoing one, with no members older than 60